Mail semantics: mail group, permissions, MTA/MDA suid/sgid and the like

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Mar 30 05:03:31 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> a) Does every MDA and MUA need to do both locking mechanisms or is
>    dotlocking the fallback to fcntl? The latter would be an issue, so
>    it should probably be both for every MDA/MUA.

Short answer is use fcntl or die.

Bill




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